10-31-2013, 12:33 AM
(10-31-2013, 12:27 AM)Rboe_imp Wrote: The time to first lift the bike is not after you accidently lay her down but under controlled conditions with a buddy around. I may be tall lanky fellow but lifting up a motorcycle is not that hard and I'm not that weak.Yet.
Dirt bikes you just know you're going to have to pick them up at least once on each ride in the dust.
Street bikes; well I've found that I tend to drop them for the stupidest reasons (fully loaded in front of all the rally folks, on gravel; luckily I had all those folks around as I needed half of them to right the bike, thinking the side stand is down and locked - and wasn't - so far I've seemed to have learned my lesson there). Naturally; when I dropped the Griso last, on gravel, I broke my collar bone so I was doing much lifting that day either.
But hey, these are things I like to know before hand so when bad stuff happens there is less mystery. Guess I should video tape it for you all.
Oh yes, please do!
